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What happens during deep sleep experienced in discourse?

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In deep sleep, you can either escape, resist, or enter the sacred hush of tandra, where thoughts cease yet awareness remains, allowing the essence of truth to penetrate your being.

— Osho
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Core Insight:
According to Osho, “deep sleep” in discourse has three roots: escapist dozing, habitual mind-resistance, or tandra—a yogic, sleep-like hush where thoughts stop yet hearing stays clear. In tandra you stand on the threshold, receive a rest deeper than sleep, and the words sink beneath memory. If it’s escapism, stop coming; if habit, persist; if tandra, relax and allow it.
Sometimes that “sleep” is just avoidance or habit, but sometimes it’s a calm in-between state where your mind rests, you still hear, and the talk sinks in deeper than memory.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you tell avoidance from genuine meditative receptivity.
- Guides your action: stop, persist, or relax, depending on the state.
- Encourages trust that true tandra integrates the teaching even without later recall.
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